Hey all! I'd like to urge anyone with the interest to sign up at the Dreamwidth fanart recs page to rec Life on Mars art, for either the month of May or for any month after that! It's a lovely resource that deserves a lot more attention. I've been reccing this month, and while I've been somewhat lax there are actually plenty more works worth

Just realised that some of the newer members may not know about the wonder that is crack_van. So this is a public service announcement of sorts XD

crack_van is a community dedicated to reccing outstanding fics in one's fandom of choice. Naturally, Life on Mars has its own special seat on the van ( Read more... )

As described last month, Archive Of Our Own ("AO3") is a fan-created, fan-run, non-profit, non-commercial archive for fanfiction and fanart. The section devoted to Life on Mars (UK) currently contains 483 works (sixty-two more have appeared since I first posted about it!), with lots of room for more ( Read more... )

Have you heard about Archive Of Our Own (also known as AO3)?

It's a fan-created, fan-run, non-profit, non-commercial archive for fanfiction and fanart. The section devoted to Life on Mars (UK) currently contains 421 423 works, and there's plenty of room for more. Writers whose work you'll find there include dorcas_gustine, lozenger8, ( Read more... )

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...is the visually dazzling Fuck Yeah Life on Mars (on Tumblr).


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Yes, it's that time again when I get behind the wheel of the crack_van Cortina and try to scare folk with the darker corners of the fandom.

What is crack_van, I hear you ask? Well, for the uninitiated among you crack_van:[P]ropagates multi-fandom addiction through an exhaustive regimen of positive and negative reinforcement and mental cleansing. Not really! It’s just a ( Read more... )

I just discovered, via mars_daily, that Monastic Production's new site now offers Life on Mars scripts for episodes 1x04 and 2x08. And I am thrilled, appalled, and slightly traumatised.

Because there are many differences, and some of them are shocking.

( Full story here )

Thanks to phantym_56's fantastic transcripts, plus the miracle of closed captioning, most of the mystery dialogue in LOM has been identified. Yay!

But - there are three bits of indistinct dialogue I'm still struggling to clarify for the new-and-improved transcripts site.

Can anyone help?

Episode 1x02This bit is when Sam and Gene return to CID after having ( Read more... )